NEVER MIND THE BALLROOM
STRICTLY Come Dancing’s Joe McFadden says he would love to don his kilt for a punk rockinspired Halloween dance.
As the BBC1 show’s spooky spectacular approaches, the Holby City actor said he would like to incorporate some of his Scottish heritage – if he makes it far enough into the competition.
Before he takes to the stage tonight with partner Katya Jones – this time taking on the Cha Cha – he said: “I’d love to get a kilt on. That would be quite fun and everyone expects it.
“I would like to do it in a cool way, like a punk with leather and big boots, rather than like a shortbread tin. Get a Mohawk on, blue hair, stuff like that.”
The pair have already marked themselves out as show favourites, following their stunning Viennese Waltz to Somewhere My Love, from Doctor Zhivago, on last weekend’s movie-themed episode.
But McFadden confessed that he still struggles to remember the steps for each new dance.
He said: “You don’t know if you are going to be able to get the steps in, and that’s my downfall, the thing that I find most difficult.
“Sometimes I’m all right and sometimes I’m not so good but it’s the learning that lets me down. We’ve worked out methods of getting the steps to go in and remember them.”
But Jones said: “He just has a natural body ability, not just legs.
“There’s a potential we keep trying to get at more and more. Once I see he can do something I’m going to push that button – he has got to make it bigger and better every time.”